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f UNTTED STATES PATENT OEETCEQ CHARLES E.' PADDACK, OF' RICHMOND, INDIANA.

vFlRl-z-KINDLER MOLD..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 293,773, dated February 19, 1884.

` Application inea october 9, 188:2. (No model.)

ble'material; and it consists in combining the parts `of a molding apparatus, as hereinafter described.

Reference is to be had to the drawings heretofore iled, forming part of the specilication, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of one of my kindlers, the dotted line showing the line of.

breakage when the kindler is broken for use. Fig. 2 shows an elevation view of the kindler. Fig. 3 shows a sectional elevation of my improved mold and following-block for making the kindler, and Fig. 4 is a plan view of the same.

Letters E E and D D represent the mold, E Ebeing the rim or outer part of the mold, and D D beingrthe cross-pieces serving to separate the different kindlers by making indentations in the material of which -the kindler is co1nposed, as it is pressed into the mold by the following-block C.

F F represent the chambers in which the kindlers are formed.

C is the following-block, which fits top of the mold, as shown in Fig. 8.

B is a removable bottom board, upon which the mold is placed preparatory to llingit with the material of which the kindler is composed. -The mold is made of iron or other suitable metal, the rim E E being about two inch es deep, and the cross-pieces about an inch deep. There may be any number of chambers in the mold, but the most convenient number has been found to be twenty-four in length and five in width. The following-block is composed of wood. The composition of the kindlers will be mainly of sawdust and rosin or other suitable material. llhe followingblock is so constructed as to prevent it, when placed in the empty mold, from resting on the cross-pieces D D, the depth of that part of into the theAfollowing-block which enters the mold beu the top of the rim of the mold, and "is prevented from resting on the cross-pieces by a brim` or extension, which extends one inch beyond the top of the rim of the-mold, and when the prop er pressure is put upon the followingblock this brim rests upon the rim of the mold. The mold is also constructed with reference to the' following-block'G, so as to prevent the block, when placed on the empty mold, from p resting on the cross-pieces D D, the inside face of the rim being at such an angle to the corresponding face of the following-block as to allow the block to enter the mold only foradistance of seven-eighths of an inch, leaving oneeighth of an inch space between the bottom of thefollowingblock and the top of the crosspiece.

In forming the kindler, the mold is placed upon a movable board, B, and filled with the heated mixture of sawdust and rosin until the mixture comes to the top and level with the top of the mold. The following-block C is then placed to register with the mold, and is forced by proper power into the mold until the brim of the following-block rests on the top of the rim of the mold. By this means the mixture is partly compressed into the chambers, and is partly divided by the crosspiece, a portion of the compressed material remaining undivided between the top of the chambers and the following;block, to form a back or unbroken surface, serving to hold the kindlers together when they are removed from the mold. As soon as the mixture has become sufficiently cooled, the following-block is removed from the mold, and the mold is inverted, and the kindlers are gently forced, by any suitable means, from the mold, and come forth in sheets or layers. By making the kindlers in this shape and in this manner they can be easily packed and shipped by the manufacturer and readily used by the consumer.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A mold for themanufacture of composi- IOO case, E, .having attached to it cross-partitions D, having' broad bases, ull in the plane ofthe edges beveled outwardly, as shown, combined lowei` edge of the mold, for shaping und partly with u removable bottoniboard, B, und u Solid dividingthe cake, Combined with u flut bottoni follower, C, tapering to conform to the topv of board, ll, :md u follow-board, G, provided with the mold E, and L laterally-extended flange,

5 lateral flanges, which arrest its descent into to be arrested byand rest; upon the edge of Suid 15 the niold ab u distance above the partihionsl), mold, :1s und for thepurpose set forth. as und for the purpose set forth. CHARLES E. PADDACK.

2. A mold, E, having attached to it eross partitions D, extending upward from the plane xo of the lower edge of said mold, und its upper l EDuUxRD B. NEEDHAM.' 

